Wollschleger

How does a composer cultivate an individual voice when music contains so many, much of it on record lest we forget? Unlike some out there, Brooklyn-based Scott Wollschleger creates his dystopian sound world without consciously striving for originality, and yet each of the five pieces here has something uniquely ‘Wollschlegeran’ about it, extruding timbral effects from common or garden instruments in penetrating essays that repay repeated listening.

Brontal Symmetry – the word is made up – uses “discarded scraps” from other works in a cartoon patchwork for piano trio (played here by Longleash, the work’s dedicatee). It’s goofy and lopsided, maniacal and groovy. Soft Aberration finds pianist Karl Larson and violist Anne Lanzilotti approach and part in a fractured...